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Two more ministerial cabs for hire

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Two more former Labour ministers have been secretly recorded offering to
exploit their government contacts and experience to help commercial clients
for fees of up to £2,500 a day.

Adam Ingram, the former armed forces minister, said he could draw on a pool of
out-of-work ministers who could be used to harness their government
contacts.

Richard Caborn, the former sports minister, said he may be in line for a
peerage that would boost his chances of extracting valuable information from
the corridors of Westminster.

The cash-for-access scandal has already claimed three Blairite ex-cabinet
ministers, suspended last week by Labour after they were exposed for
offering to help clients lobby for fees of up to £5,000 per day. On Friday,
John Lyon, the parliamentary commissioner for standards, said he would hold
an inquiry into the trio.

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